kieker.monitoring.timer
Interface ITimeSource

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractTimeSource, SystemMilliTimer, SystemNanoTimer

public interface ITimeSource

Since:

1.3

Author:

Jan Waller

Method Summary

long	getOffset()
long	getTime()
TimeUnit	getTimeUnit()
String	toString()

Method Detail

getTime

long getTime()

Returns:

The timestamp for the current time in TimeUnit.

Since:

1.3

See Also:

getTimeUnit()

getOffset

long getOffset()

Returns:

The offset of the timesource to 1970-1-1 in TimeUnit.

Since:

1.7

See Also:

getTimeUnit()

getTimeUnit

TimeUnit getTimeUnit()

Returns:

The TimeUnit of the timesource.

Since:

1.7

toString

String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

A String representation of the timesource. E.g., the meaning of a timestamp from this source.

Since:

1.5